NASA discovers coldest spot on Earth

Stop complaining about the weather, San Diego. It could be worse. Much worse.

You know it. And now everyone else does too.

After analyzing new data from 32 years of satellite instruments, researchers announced Monday that they had pinpointed the coldest place and time on Earth: It was Aug. 10, 2010, near a high ridge between two summits on an ice sheet known as the East Antarctic Plateau. The record low temperature? Minus 136º F (minus 93.2º C).

A NASA news release revealed: "That is several degrees colder than the previous low of minus 128.6 F (minus 89.2 C), set in 1983 at the Russian Vostok Research Station in East Antarctica. The coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth is northeastern Siberia, where temperatures in the towns of Verkhoyansk and Oimekon dropped to a bone-chilling 90 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (minus 67.8 C) in 1892 and 1933, respectively."